Call-prep brief · checked 2026-10-31
Redwood Coast Transit (RCT)
Grade F · 55.5 / 100
Unchanged since 2026-10-30.
For this call: lead with the grade and the three fixes below, then confirm the feed is current and the NTD details line up. Each fix is framed as a next step, not a failure.
What changed since the last check
- Correctness no change
- Freshness no change
- Rider experience no change
Top three things to fix
Correct feed_end_date in feed_info.txt. Set it to 2026-05-30, the last day in your calendar, or to the last day your schedule is reliable.
feed_info.txt says this feed ends on 2026-05-23. Your service calendar runs to 2026-05-30. The GTFS standard tells apps to trust a feed only up to its end date. So apps may stop showing your service on the earlier date, even though the calendar goes on.
This one is about the feed as a whole, so there is no share of it to count.
Effort: One field in feed_info.txt, often an export setting.
Set wheelchair_boarding to 1 (accessible) or 2 (not accessible) for every stop. A field survey can start with the busiest stops.
123 of 133 stops don't say whether a wheelchair user can board there. Riders who use wheelchairs can't plan a trip when accessibility is marked 'unknown'; apps show no information at all.
Fixing this covers 123 of 133 stops, about 92% of them.
Effort: A column in stops.txt; your scheduling software likely has it.
Remove retired stops from the export, or add them back to the trips that should serve them.
Some stops exist in the feed but no trip ever stops at them. Riders may walk to a stop where no bus is scheduled to arrive.
This is a validator notice, and the validator decides what each instance covers, so no share of the network can be read from it here.
Effort: A review pass in your scheduling software.
Riders and need behind these fixes
- This feed carries no National Transit Database ID, so annual rider-trips are not known for it.
- California as a whole measures lower on transit need. That is a statewide reading, not one for this feed's service area. Source: US Census ACS 5-year 2022, statewide overlay, as of 2026-10-26.
These describe this feed only. They do not rank agencies, and they do not change the grade or the order of the fixes.
Finding handoff
Move one finding to a recheck
Select one finding. Copy the request, make the change in the feed-producing tool, then compare the next complete run.
- Feed evidence
- feed_info.txt says this feed ends on 2026-05-23. Your service calendar runs to 2026-05-30.
- Next action
- Correct feed_end_date in feed_info.txt. Set it to 2026-05-30, the last day in your calendar, or to the last day your schedule is reliable.
- Recheck
- Publish the changed feed at the same URL. On the next complete, comparable scorecard run, confirm that this finding is no longer reported.
Copy handoff text
- Feed evidence
- 123 of 133 stops don't say whether a wheelchair user can board there.
- Next action
- Set wheelchair_boarding to 1 (accessible) or 2 (not accessible) for every stop. A field survey can start with the busiest stops.
- Recheck
- Publish the changed feed at the same URL. On the next complete, comparable scorecard run, confirm that this finding is no longer reported.
Copy handoff text
- Feed evidence
- Some stops exist in the feed but no trip ever stops at them.
- Next action
- Remove retired stops from the export, or add them back to the trips that should serve them.
- Recheck
- Publish the changed feed at the same URL. On the next complete, comparable scorecard run, confirm that this finding is no longer reported.
Copy handoff text
Ready to send to the agency
Hi Redwood Coast Transit (RCT) team, feed_info.txt says this feed ends on 2026-05-23. Your service calendar runs to 2026-05-30. The GTFS standard tells apps to trust a feed only up to its end date. So apps may stop showing your service on the earlier date, even though the calendar goes on. The fix is usually one export setting: Correct feed_end_date in feed_info.txt. Set it to 2026-05-30, the last day in your calendar, or to the last day your schedule is reliable. Your feed is produced by Trillium, so the quickest path is usually forwarding this to your Trillium contact. This came from your GTFS data quality scorecard, which checks the feed you publish and lists the fixes in plain language: https://gtfsscorecard.org/agency/redwood-coast-transit-rct/
NTD GTFS readiness: Not ready
Resolve this before you certify on the D-10. Service data expired 161 days ago, so FTA would find the link out of date.
- Published Ready
- Published at a public URL.
- Valid Ready
- Passes validation with no errors.
- Current Not ready
- Service data expired 161 days ago, so FTA would find the link out of date.
- agency_id provided Ready
- agency.txt provides agency_id. For RY2026, keep one stable value for each NTD reporter represented in the feed and crosswalk each value on the P-50 form.
agency_id equals NTD ID (optional): Not checked yet. This feed provides agency_id. For RY2026, keep one stable value for each NTD reporter represented in the feed and crosswalk it on the P-50 form. The value does not need to equal the five-digit NTD ID; we do not have that ID on file, so the optional equality comparison is not checked yet.
The bar this score answers to
The published guideline in California is California Transit Data Guidelines. Caltrans' published quality guidelines and compliance checklist; this rubric is anchored to them.
Key facts
- Feed URL
- https://data.trilliumtransit.com/gtfs/delnorte-ca-us/delnorte-ca-us.zip
- Last checked
- 2026-10-31
- Service window
- Feed has expired. Last service date 2026-05-30.
- Feed version
- UTC: 20-Jan-2026 15:30
- Location
- California
Part of the California portfolio: see where this agency sits among the other feeds in that group before the call.
A data-quality and completeness read to support an agency conversation. Not an official compliance determination. Rubric v1.4, validator 8.0.1.